Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (Anammox) bacteria were enriched from sludge collected at a conventional activated sludge system treating domestic wastewater of Belo Horizonte(MG), Brazil, employing a sequencing batch reactor (SBR). After three months of cultivation, Anammox activity was detected in the system by the consumption of stoichiometric amounts of NO2 and NH4 +. Fluorescent in situ hybri...

This correspondence describes the successful development of methods for the recovery, isolation and detection of Cryptosporidium oocysts in wastewater and biosolids. Wastewater from one plant was used to optimize methods in raw influent as well as primary, secondary and tertiary effluents. Raw influents and primary effluents were concentrated using centrifugation followed by isolation of Crypto...

This paper discusses nitrogen removal mechanisms in an aerobic membrane bioreactor (MBR) treating high strength pet food wastewater characterized by oil & grease, COD, BOD5, TSS, TKN, NH4-N concentrations of 2800 mg/L, 25000 mg/L, 10000 mg/L, 4500 mg/L, 1650 mg/L and 1300 mg/L respectively. An MBR operating at SRT >25 days achieved mixed liquor total suspended solids (MLTSS) concentrations >300...

The Biocos strategy as a cyclical time controlled activated sludge system shows a great variability in operation and control. One topic such a type of treatment plant has to deal with is the optimum relation between aerobic and anoxic conditions. The aeration control has to adapt the length of the nitrification phases to the current constraints in order to save operational costs and maximise ni...

Two constructed wetland systems, treating domestic wastewater, are compared in terms of performance and costs. One is a free water surface (FWS) wetland system located in Pompia, Crete, south Greece, and the other one is a vertical subsurface flow (VSF) wetland system located in Comati, Chalkidiki, north Greece. The FWS system is designed for 1200 p.e. Its construction cost was Euro 305,000, an...

An innovative static/oxic/anoxic (SOA) activated sludge process characterized by static phase as a substitute for conventional anaerobic stage was developed to enhance biological nutrient removal (BNR) with influent ammonia of 20 and 40 mg/L in R1 and R2 reactors, respectively. The results demonstrated that static phase could function as conventional anaerobic stage. In R1 lower influent ammoni...

Two laboratory-scale sequencing batch reactors were used to study biological treatment of carbon and nitrogen in a new combined anaerobic-aerobic system. Piggery wastewater was used as a model effluent. The anaerobic reactor, fed with raw wastewater and nitrite/nitrate recycling from the aerobic reactor, carried out denitrification and anaerobic digestion of organic carbon. In the aerobic react...

A circular gravity-phase separator using coalescing medium with cross flow was developed to remove oil and suspended solids from wastewaters. Coalescence medium in the form of inclined plates promotes rising of oil droplets through coalescence and settling of solid particles through coagulation. It exhibits 22.67% higher removal of total suspended solids (TSS) compared to separators without coa...

We investigated the conventional characterisation and biological treatability of wastewaters of the “Izmit Industrial and Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant”. Respirometric procedures were carried out for the experimental assessment of organic contents of wastewater. The mean value of total COD was 1201 mg·l-1 and varied within a wide range of 580 to 1822 mg·l-1 for the 14 different influents....

In this study, the Bohart and Adams’ model taking into account bed depth, and influent dye concentration was studied to exhibit adsorption process of textile dyes (Basic Blue 41 – BB41 and Reactive Black 5 – RB5) in glass columns using tree barks (Eucalyptus camaldulensis). Adsorption capacity coefficient values are determined using the Bohart and Adams’ bed depth service model. The model indic...